Fifty fifth-grade students from Virginia Williamson Elementary School will take center stage next week at the Palace Theatre in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

The select group of students will perform with The Twelve Irish Tenors of Dublin at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Tiffany Pruitt, music teacher at Virginia Williamson, said she received an e-mail from the Palace Theatre, asking for local school groups interested in singing during a performance. She immediately responded she was interested in participating. That opened the opportunity to all fifth-grade students.

Voters in all 19 municipalities in Brunswick County get the chance to decide who will run their towns in municipal elections today.

Polls are open until 7:30 p.m.

In addition to deciding among three candidates for two town commissioners’ seats, Carolina Shores voters will have on their ballot a referendum asking whether the town “should return to a Mayor-Council Form of Government, as opposed to remaining in its current Council-Manager Form of Government?”

Before the bell rings, most high school students stop to chat with friends, quickly finish homework or stop by their locker to pick up a forgotten item. But 16-year-old West Brunswick High School student Aqui Jackson stops at his locker to look at one very special book.

If you ask my 7-year-old, “Astro Boy” is the best movie ever made. I wouldn‘t go that far.

For kids ages 7 and older, you can’t get much more exciting than this computer animated action hero story about a grieving scientist father, voiced by Nicolas Cage, who creates a robot version of his lost son.

The robot, “Astro,” must then find his place in the world. In the process, he befriends other “orphans,” becomes a fighter and eventually, saves the world.

CALABASH—The Calabash Fire Department won’t accept a $2.6 million federal loan approved last month for a new fire station.

Last week, the department’s nine-member board agreed the department can’t afford the $2,607,750 USDA loan with accompanying $137,250 grant announced last month by U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre’s office. The funding was earmarked for construction of a new, much-needed central fire station for the department.

Construction continues on the new Intracoastal Waterway high-rise bridge in Sunset Beach as shown in pictures taken last month by local photographer John Clegg. The bridge is slated to open next year, displacing the old pontoon bridge currently in use.